Philip A. Serpico, 52, a former Tribune pressman, died Monday in Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center. Mr. Serpico, An Elmwood Park resident, operated presses for several newspapers, including the Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times and, before illness forced him to stop working in 1988. He had been member of the Chicago Web Printing Pressmen's Union No. 7. Survivors include his wife, JoAnn; three sons, Philip, Joseph and Christopher; a sister; and a brother. Visitation will be from 3 to 9 p.m. Wednesday and 2 to 9 p.m. Thursday in Salerno's Galewood Chapels, 1857 N. Harlem Ave. Mass will be said at 11 a.m. Friday in St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church, 1530 Jackson Ave., River Forest.

Margaret "Peggy" Serpico-Jones, 63, passed away peacefully on May 25, in Mesa, AZ. She was born Sept. 29, 1941, in Oak Park, graduated from Leyden C.H.S. in Franklin Park and attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Peggy was preceded in death by her first husband, Bill Serpico; her sister Joann and her parents Pearl, nee Fitzgerald and Alex Asta; survivors include her husband of 11 years William L. Jones; mother of Alicia Serpico-Koenig (Mike); sister of Frank (Sharon) and James Asta; aunt of Erica Arkell, Cari Anderson and Dena Marie Asta, Cliff, Billy and Steve Arkel, James, Anthony and Christopher Asta; step-mother of Jeff, Billy and David Jones and Jackie (Jeff)

For Frank J. Serpico, architecture was not only his career of more than 50 years, it was also his life. He was the architect of Alexian Brothers Medical Center in Elk Grove Village and several schools and churches for the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. Mr. Serpico, 95, of Arlington Heights died Wednesday, April 19, in his home. Born in Chicago, he was a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he earned a degree in architecture and engineering.

Synthetic turf will be installed at Ralph "Babe" Serpico Memorial Field after the Village Board on Monday approved a $363,000 contract with FieldTurf USA Inc. The ballfield, at 1000 N. 25th Ave., should be resurfaced in time for the Taste of Melrose Park celebration over the Labor Day weekend, Mayor Ronald Serpico said. Canada-based Field Turf was chosen because it specializes in a rubber-based synthetic product, said Mike Sicuro, director of Economic Development and Special Events.

Jury selection is to start Monday in the federal racketeering and fraud trial of a politically connected former union boss who once told a federal commission he was friends with Chicago's top organized crime figures. John Serpico, 70, former chairman of the Illinois International Port District, pleaded not guilty to an 11-count indictment in 1999 that accused him of racketeering, conspiracy and bank and mail fraud. The trial of Serpico and two co-defendants, Maria Busillo and Gilbert Cataldo, is expected to last six weeks before U.S. District Judge Blanche Manning.

Former union boss John Serpico deposited millions of dollars in union funds in a small Northwest Side bank to "grease the skids" so he and associates could obtain $5 million in personal loans from the bank, federal prosecutors told jurors Wednesday. "These were a parade of misfit loans that would have given any banker nightmares, absent the sweetener of the union deposits," Assistant U.S. Atty. David Glockner said in closing arguments. Serpico's lawyer, Matthias Lydon, called the loans competitive and said Capitol Bank and Trust did his client no favors.

John Serpico, a longtime Chicago labor leader, used a loan linked to his indictment this month on financial fraud charges to team up with reputed organized-crime figure Paul Spano and construct a profitable West Side apartment complex, land records show. The construction of the nine apartments was also aided by a decision by the city of Chicago to sell the land at a reduced rate, according to records and interviews. According to Serpico's federal indictment, he obtained the $540,000 loan to finance the project from Capitol Bank & Trust Co. The government contends it was among about $5 million in loans that Serpico and a co-defendant received after inducing two lenders to make loans at favorable rates for their ventures in return for promises that union funds would be deposited with the lenders.